Cándido Conde-Pumpido
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General Prosecutor Cándido Conde-Pumpido Tourón |
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| Prosecutor General of Spain | |
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In office April 2, 2004 – December 19, 2011 |
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| Nominated by | Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero |
| Preceded by | Jesús Cardenal |
| Succeeded by | Eduardo Torres Dulce |
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September 22, 1949 Corunna (Spain) |
| Alma mater | University of Santiago de Compostela |
Cándido Conde-Pumpido (born September 22, 1949), was the General Prosecutor of Spain (2004–2011). He has been an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Spain since 1995.
Conde-Pumpido was born in A Coruña (Corunna), a city and municipality of Galicia, Spain. His father was also a Prosecutor. He graduated from University of Santiago de Compostela, and received his J.D. in Law and Economics in 1971. He worked as a Judge in San Sebastián and Segovia for twenty years. He played an active role on the boards of directors for the Judges for Democracy Association.
Conde-Pumpido was nominated to the Supreme Court of Spain in 1995. The Supreme Court of Spain (Spanish: Tribunal Supremo) is the highest court in Spain for all matters not pertaining to the Spanish Constitution. The court which meets in the Convent of the Salesas Reales in Madrid, consists of a president and an indeterminate number of magistrates appointed to the five chambers of the court.
In 2004, Conde-Pumpido was appointed as Prosecutor General (Attorney General) by the King of Spain, on a proposal from the Government of President Rodriguez Zapatero, after receiving the opinion of the General Council of the Judiciary, and he was the Spanish AG from 2004 to 2011. Now he came back to the Supreme Court of Spain.
He has written many papers, including “National prosecution authorities and criminal justice system: the challenges ahead”. ERA Forum, NL, 2009.
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